Site of St. Leonhard's Church

Site of St. Leonhard's Church

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Site of St. Leonhard's Church

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Location: Wirsberg, Landkreis Kulmbach, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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March 22, 2019

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The former St. Leonhard's Church, also pilgrimage church "on the Hag", was built between 1109 and 1143 in Romanesque style and probably enlarged in 1433 in the Gothic style. It fell into decline after the Reformation in 1528. Stones and slabs were used by the Wirsbergers to build the funerary chapel around 1600 and the cemetery wall.

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

April 20, 2023

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St. Leonhard's Church was on the east knoll of the Buchleite above the Koser valley and the Hag-Graben. The Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense and the Franconian Forest Association excavated the foundation walls from 1933. The remains of the foundation wall of a Gothic church were found, including the remains of a smaller late Romanesque church, dating to the beginning of the 12th century. An extension with bone finds was identified as an ossuary. Remains of the cemetery wall were found in the north-west of the church. Remains of an older chapel-like building were uncovered to the north-east of the church.

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Rombea

June 27, 2023

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Place of the former St. Leonhardskirche with display board and floor plan of the church. Unfortunately overgrown and so nothing of the foundation walls of the facility can be seen.

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